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To: NRx

Bitcoin, the tulip bulb trading of the 21st century. At least with tulip bulbs, you had a physical asset you could see and hold.


7 posted on 03/22/2019 10:16:40 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

“At least with tulip bulbs, you had a physical asset you could see and hold.”

Most of the trading was futures contracts. Contracts that never delivered actual bulbs.


13 posted on 03/22/2019 10:21:53 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: RJS1950; Bonemaker
Regarding tulips, here is are two charts:


30 posted on 03/25/2019 6:53:48 PM PDT by bkopto
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